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V-1 rocket ("Buzz Bomb") launching tests at German Air Force Testing Center, Peenemunde-West

In response to secret orders, tests are performed at Air Force Peenemunde-West Testing Center. German technicians test use of rail for launching V-1 rockets ("buzz bombs"). Mechanic opens cover and pours hydraulic fluid into reservoir using funnel.V-1 ready for launch on the launch rail. Worker sprays water on the land near the launch pad. V-1 missile launches and flies short distance to splash into water. Cameraman records the missile launch test. Technician works on the launch rail and fits a pipe to it. (World War II period).

Date: 1943, July 14
Duration: 3 min 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675031608
German Air Force Test Center at Peenemunde-West. Test of rocket sled for launch of V-1 flying bombs

Responding to secret orders, The German Air Force Test Center at Peenemunde-West, tests mechanisms for launching the Fi 103 Fieseler (V-1 ) jet-powered flying bomb ("Buzz Bomb"). Plan calls for test of drive train rail with powder propellant rocket sled catapult having final speed of 100 meters per second. View of barren snow-covered land, test shack. and launch rail. View of test sled. Caption refers to test of Rheinmetal-Borsig catapult. Dummy V-1 missile is launched on an inclined plane. Missile plunges into water with a splash. (World War II period).

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675031609
A-4 missile is rolled out of hangar and made ready. Static test firing of rocket engine. Intense fire and smoke

In accordance with secret orders for the Military Technical Institute at Peenemunde, development of the A-4 guided missile (V-2) was undertaken in 1942. Entrance to the large assembly hanger building. Large doors slide open showing German missile on a stand. A-4 is moved to firing position by a large crane. Two German scientists work on the steering section of A-4. Technicians work on the uncovered fuel section of A-4 missile. Live static firing of the missile rocket engine while it is constrained vertically in a stand. Intense fire and smoke. (World War II period).

Date: 1942, October 3
Duration: 4 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675031611
Hitler's companion,Eva Braun, with members of her family at their house in Munich.

Views of what Eva Braun, Hitler's companion,calls,"our little house," in Munich suburbs. A patio with flowers. Views of the back garden. Her mother, Franziska, plays with Hitler's German Shepherd, Blondi, as the dog tries to bite a stream of water from a garden hose. Eva's father,Friedrich,"Fritz," in German Army uniform, relaxing in a chair at the back of the yard. View of the neighborhood. Eva playing ping pong. Eva, in a swim suit, playing with the garden hose and Blondi, the dog. Eva petting a boxer dog. Eva's father, Fritz, in uniform, playing with Blondi and a dachshund dog.A woman friend talking to Braun sisters, Eva and Gretl, sitting on a porch under an awning. A German officer sitting next to Franziska Braun, while her husband, Fritz, converses with a woman in background.The three Braun sisters, Eva, Ilse, and Gretl, conversing by the awning.

Date: 1940
Duration: 3 min 27 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675060652
U.S. medics and soldiers take victims of the Nordhausen concentration camp to ambulances.

Emaciated prisoners of the Nordhausen concentration camp are carried out of the prison. They are taken to ambulances by U.S. medics and Military Police of the 3rd Armored Division and First U.S. Army (FUSA) soldiers. The ambulances carrying victims leave prison area. (World War II period).

Date: 1945, April 11
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675029054
At end of World War II, U.S. 101st Airborne Division troops carry items from Goering's art collection and load them into trucks

At the end of World War 2, U.S. soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division carry wooden sculptures and paintings, including the "Adam and Eve" oil painting by Franz Floris from 1550, out of Nazi German Hermann Goering's art bunker in the Wemholz area, and load them into a truck. Men walk into a building. Sign reads: "Hermann Goering's Art Collection through the Courtesy of 101st Airborne Division" Scene shifts to Hotel Hubertus in Unterstein. Guard at the entrance. Walter Andreas Hofer, Goring's Art Director, shows Nazi stolen artwork to Sgt Harold A Way, including Baroque Dutch painter Franz Hals' Portrait of a Man, possibly Willem van Warmondt, Rubens' portrait of his wife, and stolen paintings by Anthony van Dyck and Nicolaes Maes. Room filled with paintings and statues. U.S. Army truck arrives at the building, men get out of the truck and enter the building. U.S. military personnel unload paintings and statues and triptych altar, from a train onto the trucks. Virgin Mary statue at open door of the freight car.

Date: 1945, May
Duration: 3 min 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675029911